Selenium

Selenium is an open-source suite of tools designed for automating web browsers. It provides a robust framework that allows developers and testers to create automated tests for web applications across various browsers and operating systems, simulating user interactions like clicks, form…

Key facts

First appeared: 2004
Category: devops_tool
Problem solved: Selenium was created to solve the problem of manual, repetitive, and error-prone testing of web applications. It aimed to provide a programmatic way to automate browser interactions, enabling reliable functional and regression testing across different web browsers and operating systems, which was a significant challenge for earlier record-and-playback tools.
Platforms: macOS, Linux, Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari), Windows

Related technologies

GitLab CI
C#
PHP
Jenkins
Pytest
JavaScript (Node.js)
Jest
All major web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari)
GitHub Actions
Java
TestNG
JUnit
Python
npm
Ruby
Docker
Maven
Kubernetes
pip
NUnit
Mocha
CircleCI
Gradle

Notable users

ThoughtWorks
Meta (Facebook)
Microsoft
Virtually any large enterprise involved in web application development and QA
Amazon
Google